Iannotta talks about how NASA calculates risk and how it plans to keep those risks to acceptable levels on the deep-space missions to come. Americans take responsibility for each other, even if it might not seem like it on the Washington DC Beltway. They don't like to see their friends or colleagues die in car accidents or spaceship accidents. They delegate lots of oversight power to government agencies and congressional committees for matters of transportation. In the space business, an unfortunate result of this oversight can be a tendency toward excessive aversion to risks. Experts in the industry know they must guard against this tendency. Former astronaut Frank Culbertson, now an executive at Orbital ATK, spoke eloquently about risk at AIAA's Propulsion & Energy Forum in July.
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Risk aversion
Aerospace America ; 53 , 9
2015
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English
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